On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:43 PM Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, at 22:56, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:53 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 16 Sep 2019, at 05:51, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/15/2019 6:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > And memory is fallible, and memory of age has no more meaning when your > age is bigger that the nameable or describable number, which happens very > soon, relatively, for the immortal being trying to keep track of their > birthday. > > Immortality is when you are to old to be able to even name your age. After > that, you have always the same age. > > > Nice aphorisms. But irrelevant. The question is why don't we see almost > everyone else as younger? > > > That happens when we are not old enough, but also, we might always > backtrack to younger people when close to death or when dying, … > > > What utter nonsense. You cannot jump between Everett branches, so you > cannot jump to a branch in which you were young. > > Depends on what you mean by "you". > I mean the person who has lived on this branch since birth. In every other branch in which copies exist, they occupy that space. So you can't simply "become" one of those copies on another branch -- what would happen to the one that was there? So you do not transfer memories or anything like. And you certainly can't become a younger copy of yourself. > Physics rules out backward causation and branch jumping. > > > Physics is inconsistent with itself and fails to explain significant > aspects of observable nature, so it doesn't really matter what it "rules > out". We don't know enough for such bold claims. > Physics is not inconsistent with itself or else existence would be impossible! Some physical theories may be marginally inconsistent with others, but that is another matter. It does not mean that there is open slather for you to believe whatever you want, especially if that is inconsistent with well-established theories. Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLQ12tqbBW6NXiaF9x4HkgTCT92MJ6K70McKMp03VQ6cRw%40mail.gmail.com.
